Bernard Docker

He was the only child of Frank Dudley Docker, an English businessman and financier, and Lucy Constance (daughter of distinguished lawyer John Benbow Hebbert).

His father had her tracked by private detectives, and after finding her with an actor, David Hutcheson, Docker divorced her in 1935.

In 1965, Docker put Shemara, his yacht, on the market for £600,000; it was eventually sold for £290,000 to British businessman Harry Hyams.

"Now we feel alone in this world, long since forgotten by those we helped, with only a handful of true and trusted friends remaining.

"[5] Docker commissioned John I. Thornycroft & Company to build a 863 tonne yacht to his specifications in 1938, names Shemara.

[5] MY Shemara was requisitioned by the Royal Navy at the start of the Second World War in 1939 and used as a training vessel for anti-submarine warfare.

[7] Shemara left RN service in 1946[8] Docker commissioned Hooper & Co. to build a drophead coupé on a Daimler DE-36 chassis for display at the first post-war British International Motor Show at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre in 1948.

These were all called "Green Goddesses" after the original, which was exhibited with jade-green coachwork and green-piped beige leather.

Its accessories included solid silver hairbrushes and red fitted luggage made from crocodile skin.